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county seat
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administrative center for a county or civil parish in the United States
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Within Vinony's link graph, county seat is referenced by 95,056 other articles, and connects out to prison, list of parishes in Louisiana and list of boroughs and census areas in Alaska.
It sits within the topics Capital cities of country subdivisions and Counties.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- administrative centre
- Country
- United States
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- County seats in the United States
- topic's main category
- Category:County seats of the United States
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Encyclopedic overview
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in six countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. An equivalent term, shire town, is used in the U.S. state of Vermont and in several other English-speaking jurisdictions.
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